can he survive the storm? back from the brink? rush president vladimir putin says he's pulling his troops back from the ukraine border. the u.s. though says this is not happening. this is a step toward peace or a blatant lie? >> your "new day" starts right now. >> good morning. welcome to "new day." it's thursday, may 8th. 6:00 in the east. up first, monica lewinsky and hillary clinton facing their past with both of their futures hanging in the balance. lewinsky pens a thoughtful "vanity fair" article released overnight. the piece takes on hillary clinton's portrayal of monica and of hillary's own role in her husband's affair. a much more daunting challenge faces the former secretary of state involving the attack of the u.s. mission in benghazi. there's a real prospect of a new investigation and possible subpoena for clinton. suzanne malveaux live from washington this morning.

suzan suzanne, as young as we both are, we did work the lewinsky scandal back in the day. what's our take on the essay? >> 16 years ago that we covered that and we saw her outside the watergate complex, the apartment complex. run into her at a coffee shop occasionally. gracious, kind, but clearly a difficult time for her. she's speaking out now because at 40 years old she wants to move on with her life, give her life purpose as well as her past and show those who have experienced public humiliation like she did that you can survive. in her tell all "vanity fair" essay monica lewinsky says she's opening up about her scandalous past in an effort to move forward. i would give anything to go back and rewind the tape. lewis ski writes about her affair with president clinton. beyond the salacious details splashed across the headlines.

it was an authentic connection with emotional intimacy, frequent visits, plans made, phone calls, and gifts explained. now she examines the situation with new perspective. lying back now, shake my head with disbelief and i wonder what was i, what were we thinking? lewinsky has remained mostly reclusive, an effort to protect herself from the shame she felt when their affair went public. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman, ms. lewinsky. >> reporter: following president clint clinton's first ve meant denial and subsequent. >> i did i had a relationship with her that was not appropriate, in fact, it was wrong. >> i felt like a piece of trash. i feet -- i felt dirty and i felt used. >> larry: lewinsieu w >> reporter: lewinsky said it

changed the entire trajectory of her life and remained unemployable, stuck in time, never getting married or having children. she writes, with every man i date, yes, i date, i go through some degree of 1998 whiplash. lewinsky said she considered the consequences of telling her story on the clinton universe and felt compelled to speak out now before hillary clinton's potential 2014 presidential bid, something that means more than her other than just the possibility of having a female president. when i hear of hillary's perspective candidacy i cannot help but fear the next wave of paparazzi, the next wave of where is she now stories. but should i put my life on hold for another eight to ten years? and she responds to hillary clinton calling her a narcissistic lonarcissist ic loony tune. she plans out her life on some part on the political calendar.

she's anticipating when is the next time she can be thrown into the spos light if hillary runs in the 2016 election and the books that will follow. but she spoke of tyler clemente, she wishes she could have talked to him and said even in your darkest moments of humiliation, your life can go on. kate? >> thanks so much. it's an interesting read and honest essay. a lot to discuss throughout the morning about this. there's another ghost of hillary clinton's past back to haunt her today. they are expected to vote on a republican proposal to open a new investigation into the 2012 attack in benghazi, libya. that attack left four americans including a u.s. ambassador dead. democrats are calling this a partisan witch hunt. hillary clinton is also finally weighing in in. cnn's brianna keilar is in washington weighing in with more. >> it appears that hillary

clinton feels that assessment is right on. here's what she said yesterday evening at a clinton foundation event. >> despite all of the hearings, all of the information that's been provided, some choose not to be satisfied and choose to continue to move forward. that's their choice. and i do not believe there is any reason for it to continue in this way. >> now, adding to democratic claims that this hearing is motivated by politics, senate republicans have been trying to fund raise off of it. you really can't escape the presidential politics of this. hillary clinton, as the current front-runner in the polls for the democratic nomination, well, when it comes to her time at the state department, voters really feel this is a positive. so republicans have been looking at that trying to take a positive and turn it into a negative. they've said that, yes, she travelled a lot as secretary of state but they're really saying she didn't accomplish a whole lot. so as hillary clinton's allies are out there both behind the

scenes and very publicly trying to back her up laying out her accomplishments, they're doing that, chris, ahead of the fact that we're still waiting for her word on this. her book comes out next month. it's about her time at the state department. so mark your calendars for that, june 10th. >> assumption is that will be a very careful explanation in the book and they express a different set of needs in the situation. so we'll follow it through. it's certainly not done. brianna, thank you very much. the latest in ukraine. putin claims he's pulling back troops from the ukrainian border. he also says he is asking separatists to delay a vote for parts of eastern ukraine to succeed. but the u.s. and nato aren't buying it. just this morning nato secretary general says again there are no signs that russia is moving its troops. senior international correspondent matthew chance has the latest from moss co. matthew? >> chris, thank you.

the doubts cast on these claims of the russian president has fueled the war of words between the nato chief and the russian for written ministry on their twitter feed. anyone who can't see the troop movements must be blind. there are significant statements as well made by vladimir putin. he's not a guy that's known for his flip-flopping. but he has played it seem some very significant u-turns over the course of the past 24 hours when it comes to ukraine, saying it's the right step forward for presidential elections to take place on the 25th of may, a few days earlier he said it was absurd given the security situation on the ground. calling on the pro-russian separatist groups in the east and south of the country to postpone their plan, independence referendums, adding fuel to the fire in that on going conflict. calling on them to postpone it to a later date. it's not clear what the action will be on the ground. >> not clear at all as we march closer to that may 25th election

that is supposed to be happening. thank you so much. we need to talk to you about a horrible turn in the nigeria battle against the terrorist group boko haram. it left 300 people dead. that's a new number coming out of how many people are killed in is a village used as troops as a base in the search for those hundreds of abducted schoolgi schoolgirls. this attack by the militant group comes amid growing outrage following the kidnappings. first lady michelle obama is joining the cause holding a sign that reads simply #bringbackourgirls. and now nigeria is accepting outside help in the search. let's start our coverage on this w. live in nigeria. vlad, what do we know?

>> reporter: attack on a market bordering the town not far where they kidnapped more than 276 girls three weeks ago. this is a classic boko haram technique. they came in armor ed vehicles. this is what people need to understand about how vicious this terrorist organization is. and just the first three months of this year i want people to sort of absorb this number. 1500 people have been killed in the first three months of this year in boko haram related violence in the northeastern part of the country. and right now it appears that the government as the world is taking note is unable to stop these attacks because they happen with such regularity and with such impunity that many are wondering what exactly the nigerian government will be able to do to so this rein of terror. kate? >> i'll take it, vlad, thank you.

watching the situation very carefully. we understand that the united states is among several countries now sending a team of experts to ney jenigeria to hel find those girls. barbara starr, we do know there are existing channels of communication. but about this new afinformatio about a team going there? >> military, intelligence, and law enforcement experts are going to nigeria to try to offer help. don't look for any u.s. military operations. no u.s. commando raids here. but they will offer help with intelligence, information, how to plan a hostage rescue mission, that sort of thing if nigerians will have to accept the help in each and every instance. you know, there's been some a talk on capitol hill, why aren't you a special forces going in? the intelligence is so spotty here they don't know where the girls are, they don't know who is holding them. if they are dispursed, if they have gone across borders or have been taken across borders.

there could be multiple targets. very difficult intelligence problem. almost impossible at this point to figure out how to get them back, so they're going to try to go to nigeria and offer the help that they can. michaela? >> that's the key, just because it's hard doesn't mean they can't do something. let's hope they are successful. let's look at more of your headlines. breaking overnight, a new arrest in the south korean ferry disaster. the ceo of that company that operated the sunken ferry has now been arrested and charged. cnn's paula hancocks is following developments live in hong kong for us. paula? >> michaela, he is now behind bars. he has been charged by causing death by negligence. we know that he spoke to reporters a little earlier this thursday and he basically made a public apology saying to the relatives of the victims of the disaster, i am sorry i have committed a crime that can only be paid back with my life. that is little consolation of

those who lost their loved ones. many losing their children in this disaster. 35 people are still missing, still in the frigid waters of the yellow sea. that desperate diving operation to try and retrieve all the bodies is still on going. they're expected to finish the first stage of this search by saturday. investigators have confirmed to cnn this ferry was overloaded. there was more than double the am of cargo on this ferry and this is the fault of this company which is why the head of the company has been or rered. according to the investigators this is not an isolated event. since march of last year more than 50% of the ships that they sent back and forth on this route were overloaded. so certainly that is causing even more anger in a country that is already shocked and also making many south koreans believe this company put profit before safety. michae michaela? >> never acceptable, when so many lives are lost, mostly children. the state department is shutting its embassy in yemen

down to the public. officials telling cnn that there's credible information about a threat against western interests there. just last year that embassy and several others in the region were shut down because of similar security concerns. so far, no american personnel have been evacuated. democrats claim election year politics are behind a house slot to hold former irs official lois lerner in contempt of congress. cited lerner for refusing to answer questions about targeting of conservative groupses that sought tax exempt status. the justice department will decide whether to bring criminal contempt charges against lernor. a tornado tore through parts of northeast colorado wednesday. powerful storm system brought several twisters to the region. want to get over to indra petersons for the latest. incredible to see what went on there in colorado. >> it's one thing to hear they had severe weather.

it's another thing to look at that video. >> hail. >> quarter size hail. there was so much of it. almost like it was snow out there. look at people trying to drive on the highways with all of this hail still on the ground. this is the same storm system we're going to be looking at today. very easy to see. same storm system that brought about four or five tornado rr reports. 51 million of you today, you have slight risk for severe weather. i really want you to focus out towards minnesota and iowa. heightened risk for severe weather. that is the moderate risk for today. what are we looking at? same system. bringing showers even in the northeast this morning. right around that warm front. way behind it when you have the low itself in the cold front, this is what it's going to have to watch. notice the storms really start to pop up towards the afternoon and evening hours tonight. keep that in mind if you have traveling plans. across the entire middle section of the country we're going to talk about problems. not just today, even in through tomorrow. eastern half of the country,

still talking about showers as we go through the entire weekend. it takes its time to kick out here. temperatures will rebound. warm air spreads farther to the east and starts to feel a little bit better where temperatures start to climb up for the weekend. but unfortunately a middle of the country another tough day. especially if you have travel plans. tough out there as well. >> thanks, indra. >> thank you for that. let's take a break. coming up on "new day," after a decade of silence, monica lewinsky has a lot to say in a new piece out today. hillary clinton won't like a lot of it. she says some provocative things that have people buzzing and with good reason. the head of the department of veterans affairs under fire this morning and he's finally speaking out. will he step down over accusations that veterans are dying while wait for treatment at va hospitals? you will hear what he has to say coming up. ♪ ♪

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monica lewinsky says she was, quote, the most humiliated person in the world after a decade out of the spotlight lewinsky is back putting herself back in the spotlight with new insight into her affair with president clinton. tough talk included about hillary and also a new goal for

herself. let's bring in cnn political commentator and republican consultant margaret hoover and "new york times" political reporter amy chosek to discuss. good morning. >> good morning. >> we have it here. >> here it is. >> the copy of it, full article. in reading it, what's your one big take? what's your feeling? >> the one thing that i felt overwhelmingly was, wow, how empathetic it really does -- >> very honest. >> it's so honest, it's so sincere. you just want to let this woman who is now 40 years old take back her life and take back her narrative and stop living in the shad doesz and stop being a victim of something that happened to her, bad choices she made when she was 21, 24. which of us didn't make bad choices when we were 24? >> coming out -- coming out now, 16 years later, in a glassy vani"vanity fair," can she do t amy? do you think that accomplishes what monica lewinsky wants, to put her past behind her? >> yeah, obviously not coming out wasn't helping her. she's a lyric in a beyonce song.

>> good point. >> >> i like the way she positioned herself as a poster girl of internet shaming. she was the first face of internet shaming. so for her to take a role and sort of that cause, i think makes sense. she positioned it well. >> to consider that she did this -- this all happened to her in 1998, long before the internet could have made a scandal. the internet -- she was the first internet scandal, this is before twitter and youtube and facebook. and she still had the notoriety of someone who had been victimized by those mediums. imagine, the tyler clemente story that tyler clemente is what pulled the heart strings of her mother and helped her realize she can speak positively for victims of bullying, it's remarkable. >> i think it is a must read. i rarely say that, especially about political scandal. but i think that she is going to come across so differently than people think she is. before the piece came out you can see it, people want to call her dumb and what sh se doing, she screwed up with the president. all of these things that i

believe that would never exist if it happened today. heaven, if a president were caught with an intern today who would blame tin tern? no one. if i sat on this set and said i want to know who this lewinsky is and how did she dupe the president, you would stone me. i think she says interesting things about social media. here's my provocative point for you guys, i think she makes a decent case for women gathering around hillary as the obvious choice for them, may want to rethink it based on how she characterizes her role in her husband's affair and how she chooses to see the woman involved. >> she raises the hypocrisy of the women in the late '90s. my impulse to blame the woman whether it's herself or me, is deeply troubling. women need to think about that. she calls out the hypocrisy if this is george w. bush, there's no way women would have defended him. >> do we have that one quote? i'll read it if we've got it.

she said this, hillary clinton wanted it on the record that she was lashing out at her husband's mistress. she may have faulted her husband for being inappropriate but i find her impulse to blame the woman, not only me but herself troubling. exactly to the point. >> that's an important issue for hillary clinton. she's speaking every day. yesterday yesterday at another event for women and girls, especially in per post state department role. i just wonder, you know, if people are going to say, wait, you didn't see anything exploitative about that? i think that's a good point in terms of her as this global feminist icon. >> i thought one really interesting point, maybe it hasn't been discussed enough, is the identity or lack thereof that monica lewinsky was able to have. she says this and i hope we can pull this one up as well. she said, unlike the other parties involved, i was so young that i had no established identity to which i could return. i didn't let this define me. i simply hadn't had the life experience to establish my own identity in 1998.

great point. >> absolutely. >> you see the ripple effect for the years afterwards. what have you done with yourself? don't capitalize on yourself? she's saying i didn't have a identity to know what i'm supposed to be doing. >> in a kardashian age when everybody cashes in, she didn't. she looked at feshlg authorities. it's not just her saying it. they wanted her to wear a wire and she said no, prosecute me. how many people would do that today? >> or a 24-year-old. >> she tried to do it right. >> i found detail fascinate that the employers said we would have to get the okay from the clintons because she might be the next president. >> i believe that, too. >> there's no way hillary doesn't have to comment on this at some point. >> that was going to be my question. >> you think so? >> she's really never needed to. amy, you cover her a lot. do you think she needs to? i don't know. >> whether she needs to or whether she does can be debated. i will believe that she will avoid this. she will not answer the question

if she gets it. >> if she's asked, what does she say? >> she gets such softball -- handpicking the events that are very light and i don't think she's going to get that. >> she's not going to choose to. look, if she runs for president this is going to come up. she is going to have to have an answer. the safest thing is to put out a statement, say you're imp thetic to her, she hopes monica can move on, everybody move on. >> i'm with margaret. i think it's win-win. the dignity of leave my marriage alone allows hillary to move past this. i'm not going to rehash my marriage with you guys. i think she will be able to skirt it. i think he will give monica lewinsky a chance to be designed a different way. >> let's step into the political for a second. does this put republicans in a very delicate position where some republicans may be on the cable nets don't do the delicate dance very well if they take this on? >> the important thing to remember is hillary clinton had

her highest approval ratings ever during the monica lewinsky scandal. i do not think this is something that necessarily sticks to her, her husband's mistakes. >> do we want to take it on? republicans don't want to deal with this. everybody is ready to move on. >> you're not moving on on your morality anymore. >> there's plenty to talk about. >> there's no reason to pursue this. she's a victim. hillary does her best when she's a victim of her circumstances. there's no reason for republicans to pursue this. yeah, 66% approval rating during the first lady during this and 66% at her height of secretary of state. >> leave you guys with one more quote and then let it go because this is a good one. what does monica lewinsky think about clintons now. this one is telling. this is what she says. despite what some headlines falsely report about this piece this is not about me versus the clintons. their lives have moved on. they occupy important and powerful place on the global stage. i wish them no ill. >> she's not dishing. she's not dishing in the piece. i think it's a must read.

if only to -- this woman who is dismissed as a dope, right? >> not a dope. i will admit in there words in there i don't know. >> there is rerchsz to a t.s.s. elliott that i'm sure few people will know and she raises a great issue about that and social media. she raises really provocative things in here which is worth a read even if you don't give a damn about the clintons in the scandal, which is nice, but we know is not true. >> great to see you guys. coming up next on "new day," call for secretary of veterans affairs to resign growing louder this morning after cnn reported on the allegations that dozens of veterans are dying because simply of long treatment delays. if he won't step down, what happens next? ♪ ♪

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welcome back to "new day." let's take a look at your headlines now. the death toll stands now at 300 after after armeds assault by the militant group boko haram. it happened in a village troops are using as a base as they search for hundreds of schoolgirls. the u.s. and britain are sending teams. china is offering satellite assistance. not ukraine, the referendum will go on as planned. pro-russian separatists have decided to move forward with a vote to succeed. president vladimir putin called for a delay. the head of nato says there are no signs that russia has pulled back. it's been exactly two months since malaysia airline flight

vanished. this morning no active search is under way. an international team is reviewing satellite data and re-evaluating the mission to find that missing plane. meanwhile, new ideas are being floated to require longer battery lives in black box pingers and realtime data tracking of planes over open oceans. just some of the changes that we were wondering would come, chris, after the disappearance of this flight. >> that's an important part of this story, also, is what is able to change. so we understand vaet rans affairs secretary shinseki is doubling down on his refusal to step down after deadly delays in va hospitals uncovered by cnn. on wednesday shinseki finally decided to break his silence. take a listen. >> are you willing as secretary of veterans affairs to accept full responsibility? >> i am. i have. and that's the reason the i.t. is down there doing the investigation. >> they want you to resign or be fired. will you resign? >> i will say i serve at the pleasure of the president.

>> cnn has been working on this story since last fall uncovering these shocking allegations. so listen to this. more than 40 veterans did die while waiting to be seen at va hospital ace cross the country including in arizona, south carolina, georgia, and texas. elaborate cover-up scheme at a va hospital in phoenix put more than 1400 veterans on a secret waiting list. and the va's own reports that it somehow cleared 1 1/2 million backlogged records for patients seeking consults. all right. so joining us now is daniel, the national commander of the american legion. this is nothing new to you. you're aware of this stuff. what is your reaction to what was uncovered? >> it's been a growing situation. we have seen flags across the country and phoenix is just the newest flag. it's been, you know, one death is tragic, preventable deaths

are just unforgivable. and for them to try to cover it up, we just can't forgive -- forgive deaths of veterans here at home. you know, battlefield is one thing. but when they come home, seeking medical care that they have earned, then there's a real problem. and we've been seeing this. he we have what's called a system we're saving that goes into the hospitals and we've been monitoring this for ten years. we're the veterans organization that goes in and really sees what's going on. and with the bonuses and the secretary's unwillingness to hold anyone accountable for these is just something we can't tolerate. >> one of the things that i think people need to know the most is and probably most troubling is, this is not new. fair, mr. dellinger, that shinseki, it was on his watch and his job to clean it up and clearly he's not getting it done.

the worst part is it ain't new, is it? >> no it isn't. that's why we started what's called a system we're saving ten years ago. and as we've been reviewing the hospitals, we go into about 15 hospitals per year and regional offices about the same amount per year to try to understand what they're doing and why they do certain things. and try to -- we're partners in this. we're here. this is not partisanship. this is all about the veterans. we're just here to make sure that veterans get the best care possible by the va. >> you could argue that that's the promise, that america makes, right? that these fighting men and women deserve the best of everything. and not only they're not getting the best, but the question to you is, do you believe that treatment at the va is actually worse than you get in the other public and private parts of the system? >> i can't say that. i mean, there's a poll out from last week. once you get past the administrative snafus and the

scheduling issues, once you see a doctor, most veterans are very satisfied with the care within the hospitals. 85% say that they're satisfied. 95% of veterans say if they had to go to a doctor their next visit they would visit a va doctor, which says wonderful things about the system. the system is not broke. the system needs to be revamped, especially giving bonuses to failures and promotioning, it's just not acceptable. >> so what do you want from secretary shinseki? should he be removed? should he take some specific action? what do you want? >> at this point, if this was the military, you would be relieved of duty. if you were in a private sector you would be fired. and we need the va to be the best it can be for our veterans. and if it means him stepping down, yes. and if it means revamping, the

i.g., this should have been going on a long time ago. now he's just -- he's not being pro attive. he's being reactive. the only reason he's reactive to this this point is because we've come out and said enough is enough. >> daniel dellinger, thank you for being with us. as the secretary says himself, though, he serves at the behest of the president. the pressure is on them, to be sure. coming up next on "new day," did oscar pistorius just help the prosecution's case? we're going to tell you what he said when court was not in session that could cause him some very serious trouble. we're going to take you live to south africa for that. also this ahead, the woman who recorded donald sterling's racist comments is now reportedly under investigation herself. did she try to extort money from the embattled l.a. clippers owner? plus reports that she's trying to adopt the latest, all ahead. woman: this is not exactly what i expected.

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work whole met with the blade runner at his home. she says pistorius was a, quote, heartbroken man is not, quote, putting on a show. let's bring in kelly phelps, cnn's legal analyst in psouth africa. >> it's very surprising. i think even to the defense it was surprising because we heard that the social worker only actually contacted them on tuesday this week to volunteer herself to testify. and this was after she had read media reports essentially repeating suggestion in court in cross-examination to pistorius that he was in some way manufacturing his emotions or hiding behind them to avoid taking responsibility for what he's done. and therefore it is a useful witness for the defense in that regard because they now have the opportunity to place evidence on the record by someone who should be added actually works for the state who speaks to the

authenticity and voracity of his emotional response, thereby detracting from the claim that he's manipulating his emotions to avoid getting into trouble legally. >> is that with kim miers, a friend of reeva's filed a report with the national prosecuting authority alleging pistorius approached her and whispered, how can you sleep at night in a sinister tone. what is the context and what do you think the impact is? >> well, clearly the reason that that phrase in a sinister tone has been included in the press release is because that is what brings it within the purview of the south african law. needs to be a threat of harm. having said that, this is not directly relevant to this particular trial at all and therefore the national prosecutes authority issued a statement distancing themselves from it making it clear that if ms. miers would like to pursue it she needs to essentially open another case and pursue it as a separate matter because kim miers is no longer going to be a

potential witness for this case. so it has no bearing on the outcome of this trial and the judge is not permitted to consider it when reaching her determination. >> and unlike having a jury where you don't know what bleeds through, you only have an audience of one here, the judge, so you're heaping for better control of what's supposed to be relevant and allowed in trial and not. so let's end it this way, though, kelly. there's a -- this is very complex in a way. multiple charges. you know, this is a very protracted trial at this point. what do you think is the best thing that the prosecution has going for them at this point? >> well, the best thing that they have going for them at the point certainly now to show a consistency in terms of the major arguments that they've put forward. and specifically, the evidence pertaining to having heard a woman screaming. that really was the first time in the trial that we had some foundation laid, some basis laid from which the judge could infer intention to kill on pistorius'

behalf and therefore you saw neil yesterday and earlier on in the week when he was speaking to the other neighbors that the defense has put forward, you saw him very carefully putting a time frame on record by referring to the cellphone records, essentially setting up the opportunity to argue at the end of the case that the male screams that the defense witnesses heard were, in fact, a completely separate set of screams from those heard by his witnesses. and it will be crucial for him that the judge essentially believes that argument put forward. >> we all remember that as the somewhat bizarre moment in the trial when the defense argued that oscar pistorius sounds like what may be mistaken for a woman when she screams because of the emotion in that incident. but it will be interesting to see whether the prosecution can tie that together with what happened in the room where only oscar pistorius knows the absolute truth at this point. kelly phelps, thank you very much. coming up next on "new day," new revelations about donald sterling's mistress. v. stiviano under investigation

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clock. the nfl draft starts tonight. ho is going to be first picked, who is going to be last picked? a lot of intrigue. andy scholes joins us now with this morning's bleacher report. >> i've been waiting for tonight since the end of last season when the texans called off a last season losing 14 in a row at the end. consensus is the texans are going to select south carolina defensive end who is being called a once in a generation type player. also lots of talk about texans could take the most polarizing figure in the draft, texas a&m quarterback mr. johnny football. also lots of talk that the texans could be looking to trade the pick. we will found out tonight at 8:00 eastern when the first round kicks off in new york. turning on bleacherreport.com this morning is the nba playoffs. we have a roy hibbert sighting. going for a season high 28 points in game two last night

against the wizards. this after putting up the dreaded double zero in game one president in the end would win it, 86-82. this series tied at a game apiece. in oklahoma city, kevin durant received his mvp trophy before game two with the clippers. and he quickly showed everyone why he is the mvp, scoring 17 points in the first quarter. his running buddy russell with the monster slam. those two combined to score 63 points in the game. thunder get the big win, 112-101. the series shifts back to l.a. for game three on friday night with it all tied up with one game apiece. michaela, we're just getting started. >> they're going back home. and also mel roberts who is here said you look like tom brady. complement for you now. >> she's all blushier. >> i've heard it before. >> heard it before. let's talk about the clippers. the clippers owners making their

push to oust donald sterling. looks like it's going to take a legal fight to pry the team from the owner and now his wife is who is getting involved. and the whom ro recorded sterling's racist comments being investigated for extortion. oh, and also, trying to adon't two children. so much to discuss with our cnn commentator and legal analyst mel robbins. you did make andy blush. not hard to do apparently. the owners met. they have a committee. they met yesterday discussing the removal of donald sterling, ownership from the team. i want your thoughts right off the bat. what do you think? is it fair, is it just? >> he should be removed. it's completely fair because he's operating under contractual guidelines that he signed, that he's been approve for three decades, for crying out loud, and he had behavior, whether it was obtained legally or not, that had a direct impact on the nba financially. so this is a slam dunk as far as i'm concerned. >> now, there are some potential complications. >> yeah. >> it's interesting.

wolf blitzer's reporting that since 1981 sterling has signed separate agreements with the nba including within the last decade that contain moral clauses. how is all of that going to stand up legally? he signed that there are morals he will live up to or not. >> this is going to stand up because in the world we've got this huge body of laws that the governments pass that you and i and everybody else have to follow. however, he lives in this world. this is the nba. when you want to live with the flowers you've got to sign a contract and you've got to behaf a certain way. and when he said something, excuse me, when he said those words and they got out in the public space, those words had a huge impact on that world and they also violated the laws that he said that he would live in by being a part of the nba. >> it's that point that it got out in into the public space because he has behaved this way before and he has -- there's been reports of the way he

behaved, et cetera, et cetera. >> yeah. the only thing that i disagree with, the mob mats thats wanting him out, i'm part of that mob saying get him out, get him out, get him out, is that there is no way the nba could have kicked him out for the prior behavior because it had zero impact on the nba. elgin who was on with anderson last night, his racial charges were dismissed so the nba did not have a leg to stand on in terms of being able to rally the support necessary to kick him out. >> the other thing that we heard, shelly sterling, wife, estranged wife, et cetera, we don't know exactly, she believes she's legally entitled to maintain ownership of the team. she's going to fight to do so. >> yeah. >> she's part of the family trust which essentially would give her equal ownership of the team. so here's the question. >> yes. >> that's a massive comp pl my

indication. do you think fans are going to be welcoming of it? >> no. >> do you think players are going to stand for it? >> no. i think she's the "x" factor. as much as we have the "v" factor, we have the "x" factor. with sehelly, what does the document with the nba say between donald sterling, vis-a-vis the ownership. if donald sterling, let's say you have a car and i buy a car but we put the title of the car in a family trust. if my name is the only thing on that title, i still own it. if i sell it, my husband may be entitled to half of it but he doesn't legally own the car. he just is a beneficiary of it. until we actually see the contracts between the nba -- >> fine-tuning with a legal comb. >> -- she can put out a press release saying i'm a co-owner. >> let's dig into the relationship at the center of this entire thing, the woman who put out the -- well, the woman

that was on the other side of that infamous recording. we don't know who put it out to be fair. she is now being reportedly investigated for extortion. >> yes. >> thoughts on that, first of all. >> well, i wouldn't be surprised. and the reason why is if you will recall last weekend tmz was report that sterling muttered to a reporter, i should have just paid her off. remember you i said we have the "v" factor and the "x" factor. the "x" factor shelly sterling sued stiviano using divorce law to say, hey, you've been with my husband, you've been sleeping with him. he gave you $1.4 million mansion in beverly hills. he's given you four cars. that stuff is mine and we're going to go through a divorce and i need that back. so she sued v. stiviano and v. said, to sterling, and to some of her friends, i'm going to get back at her. some people are speculating that this tape leak is retaliation for the fact that shelly -- this is such a drama.

follow the bouncing ball. but shelly is upset that v. stiviano was treated the way she was by her husband. >> and sort of another area of this l.a. times is reporting that v. stiviano is also trying to adopt two children. >> yes. >> i'll admit. i work with at risk kids. i get my back up when i hear a story like this. i went beyond the headline a little bit. these are kids that are distant relatives to her. there are going to be people who say she's been arrested for petty theft, duis. do these people get vetted to be foster parents? >> i do get my back up. talk me down from the ledge or should i be talked down from the ledge? >> i'm with you on this. any kid that's in the foster system, anybody that is seeking to have custody or have guardianship or somebody or to adopt somebody should be scrutinized at the highest levels, but -- >> apparently she's been given special dispensetion in terms of her past.

>> she doesn't have a lengthy criminal record. as far as i'm concerned these are relatives of hers. she's been going through the process for well over a year. she already has been taking care of these kids. and this is just weird timing where all of the final stuff was, you know, kol coming down. >> there are people on this planet who have done so much worse that still have their kids and if she can give these kids a great home even though she's a screwball in terms of who she is hanging out with and the way she conducts herself, if there's nothing to prove those kids are in danger, i don't think it should have any bearing on whether or not she's fit to take care of these kids. >> thank you for digging through all of this for us. >> screwball, legal term of art there. big stories to tell you about to help start your "new day." russia says it's pulling back troops from ukraine's border. the u.s. says, no it isn't. nigeria's president said this is the beginning of the end of the

terrorists who took them. and monica lewinsky took hillary clinton to task for blaming herself for the affair. let's get after all of it. vladimir putin has made a remarkable u-turn in his stance on ukraine. >> so far we haven't seen any indications they are pulling back their troops. >> the seizure of these young women is abominable, it's criminal. >> she's opening up about her scandalous past. >> i felt like a piece of trash. >> oh, my god. i was walking my dog and the house just exploded. >> did you know that he was gone? >> yeah. but we thought it was a trick. >> good morning. welcome back to "new day," thursday, may 8th, 7:00 in the east. we begin with the crisis in ukraine. suspicious turn around for vladimir putin. he says russian troops are pulling back from ukraine's border. and it's instead 15,000

ukrainian troops that are there now. he's also saying that he's asking separatists to back off on a push for parts of eastern ukraine to declare independence. but is this apparent 180 from putin true on any level? let's bring in senior international correspondent matthew chance. he has the latest from moscow. what's the take? >> well, it seems on the troop issue, expressing some concern about that. saying they haven't seen anything on the ground that indicates there are troop movements. on the other issues, issue of support t from the presidential election on may 25th which previously putin spokesmen had been saying was absurd, now saying it's a step in the right direction. that seems to still stand. on the third issue, the issue of putin calling for those separatist pro-russians and eastern and south of the country of ukraine to abandon or to postpone their referendum on independence from ukraine, that seems to have hit some rocky ground as well. over the past hour or so people on the ground, local leaders on the ground for the separatists, are saying they will push ahead

with the referendum despite what vladimir putin has to say. so it seems to undermine those claims that vladimir putin here at the kremlin was controlling everything on the ground taking place in eastern/southern ukraine. that may indeed have been the intention of him making those remarks in the first place. back to you. >> thank you. this morning the u.s. is echoing nato and not buying russia's claims of a troop pul bag. barbara starr is at the pentagon with the latest. what do we believe is happening? >> good morning, kate. u.s. spy satellites are keeping an eye on that border around the clock and they are not seeing, we are told, any downturn in the number of russian troops on the border. still about 40,000. but the russians are masters of military deception. what the u.s. sources are telling me they believe continues to go on is the russians withdraw some units, rotate them out and then right away send in fresh units. so a lot of churn, a lot of

movement around. the bottom line, the u.s. says, there are still 40,000 plus russian troops on that border. and a new very worrying concern is what is going on in odessa, in southwestern ukraine, the u.s. believes russia is going to make a move for odessa and their next military move will to try and cut off the whole southern part of ukraine, make it a land locked country. so watching those troops on the border, seeing what they're up to remains a top priority for u.s. intelligence. chris? >> isolating ukraine. certainly at the top of the concern list. barbara starr, thank you very much. the president of nigeria says he's had enough. good luck jonathan is saying a that the terrorists who took 300 girlses are not long for this girl but boko haram is not backing down, killing 300 people in aville ranlg nigerian troops were using as a base. they are now accepting help for other countries for the search. we have vladimir duthiers in the

capital with more. what do we make of the latest statements from the president? >> chris, the president just speaking a couple moments ago at the word economic forum here and sounding confident saying the kidnapping of these 200 girls taken april 14th in the middle of the night at their dorms while they were sleeping, he says it's the beginning of the end of terror. there's a lot of people sort of scratching their heads and wondering what that exactly means. as you said on monday, there was a huge attack by boko haram in a town close to chibok where the girls were taken. 300 people kid in a market. arriving in carriers with rocket propelled graen grenades attacking villagers and shop owners. they tried to lock themselves in the shops. boko haram militants set those shops aflame. while the president has sounded confident he would defeat terror and is welcoming international aid and international community

providing intelligence support and perhaps at some point some kind of military sbintelligence gathering capability. a lot of people is wondering if this is the beginning of the end or if boko haram will continue to attack the northeast. >> thank you for the latest on that. now let's look at your other headlines. a tell vized apology from the ceo of a company that operated the south korean ferry following his arrest i committed a crime that can only be paid back with my life. he's charged with causing death by negligence. they're moving to revoke all of the company's licenses. 269 people died in last month's ferry disaster. 35 remain unaccounted for. a security scare is forcing the state department to close the u.s. embassy in yemen to the public. last year the same embassy and several others in the region were also shut down because of safety concerns. officials tell cnn there's credible information of a threat against western interests in yemen right now.

at this point there have been no evacuations of u.s. personnel. in washington today, the house is expected to vote on a republican plan to create a special committee on benghazi. the 2014 u.s. consulate attack took the lives of four americans including the american ambassad ambassador. the committee would have five republican members to five democrats. former secretary of state hillary clinton said she's satisfied with what's already known about the incident. police say a fire destroyed -- that destroyed the tampa florida mansion owned by former tennis player james blake was intentionally set. four bodies were found inside the charred remains. >> bodies discovered after a massive blame in former james blake's multimillion dollar florida home. >> oh, my god. i was walking my dog and the house just exploded. >> reporter: a panicked neighbor called 911 after seeing the house go up in flames. authorities say the fire was intentionally set and four bodies were apparently a family,

two adults and two teenagers. >> oh, my god! >> calm down and take a deep breath, okay? i know it's hard. >> it's just so horrible. i was walking by as it was explode rrg the adults were found in one bedroom and the teens were in separate bedrooms. authorities say identifying the bodies will take several days. commercial fireworks were also found in the home according to officials. >> do you see flame and smoke? >> the house is engulfed in flames, ma'am. >> reporter: two of the bodies have upper body trau map by that are considering murder/suicide but caution the investigation is still on going. >> we are continuing to process the scene and this probably will take several days. >> james blake was not present at the time of the fire. police are working to confirm whether the bodies found were that of the family that leases the home from blake. and a historic day in sports. for the first time a female has been hired to coach professional

men's french soccer team. 36-year-old helena costa taking over the help of the clairmont soccer club. former manager of the national teams in iraq. congratulations to her. >> that is good news. >> very good news. we have an update on a heartbreaking story out of texas. a college student killed by a campus officer after routine traffic stop. cameron was shot five times at close range. his family filed a wrongful death suit and this morning they're breaking their silence. cameron's mother saturday down with cnn's george howell. here's the piece. >> when we come to san antonio, we usually pass by on the street and i look and i think, gosh, it happened right there. >> reporter: it's not easy for valley redus to be here. the place where her son cameron was shot and killed by a university of the inkarnate word

police officer. five months ago the 23-year-old was within walking distance of his own apartment on campus when stopped for suspicion of drunk driving. the situation escalated to the point where corporal christopher carter used deadly force. >> i'm betting that we're going to find that there's more to the story than cameron just trying to get away from this man. >> reporter: redus was shot five times. notably, at a downward angle through the face and once through the back. corporal carter claims redus became come t battive, ignoring 56 commands to resist arrest. redus was intoxicated and had a trace of marijuana in his system. all the more reason this mother doubts her son was that much of a threat. >> i'm really angry. those downward angles, they say it all. there's no denying the malice. >> reporter: the redus family

filed a civil lawsuit against corporal carter and the university of the incarnate word for the wrongful death of their son. corporal carter remains on leave and the university defended its position saying in a statement, quote, our initial review supports our belief that a court of law is the appropriate venue for experts to testify about the events that ended in the death of cameron redus. frustrated by the lack of action, valley redus says something has to be done to answer for what happened. >> i know he wasn't perfect but he didn't deserve to be shot execution style. >> reporter: george howell, cnn, san antonio, texas. >> we thank george for that and we'll be follow that story. coming up on "new day," after ten years monica lewinsky breaks her silence. where were the feminists, she asks? should they have been backing her up? and what about her choice words for hillary clinton? we're going to take you through what she says.

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welcome back to "new day." for the first time in a decade monica lewinsky is breaking her silence about her affair with

president bill clinton. in a new essay in "vanity fair" she says she's speaking out now because she says it's time to take back her story, very simply. let's bring in sally cohn, cnn political commentator and david, author of "first in his class, a biography of bill clinton" and contributor to "inside politics." good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> david, let me get your take really quickly. you wrote the book on bill clinton. what did you learn that is new to you in this essay? >> nothing. you know, i don't hold anything against monica lewinsky for doing this. i'm not an expert on her. i can talk more about the clintons and their reaction. but, you know, for monica lewinsky, the only thing i learned is that she contributed once again to the destruction of the word narrative, which has been turned into such a cliche. she wants to take her narrative back. she has every right to do that.

she has every right to live her life. it's one thing to say that she has something to say. it's another thing to say whether it's important or not. >> good take. what's your take, sally? >> wow. you know, look. i think there are two things going on here. one is, you know, this is an era that i think monica correctly labeled it with something that began with her. whipping up scandals. let's be honest, it was about the internet and about the conservative media. it was ken starr but also drudge. all of these things attacking her, turning her into this untouchable scandal and then leaving her alone. we all moved on but her life was tarnished and she is now this reminder. it's handy for her to come back in because we do this now over and over again in our 24/7 scandal cycle. we destroy people's lives. we in the media move on but their lives are ruined. and i think she's the sort of cautionary tale. the other thing, of course, is that whatever her motives, we're

now going to keep talking about this buzz this is what republicans want to talk about so they the try and ding hillary clinton. >> do you think they will? >> i have no doubt about it. look, they liked talk about its in '90s. keep trying to drum up any scandal they can to hurt hillary now. none of them are sticking in the present so they're going to go to the past and find any scandal i find. >> every republican i talk to say they don't want to touch this because they say they have enough of her record to be criticizing it. >> already touching it. rand paul was out there calling bill clinton a sexual predator. incident incidentally, attaching his behavior let alone his leadership to his wife, which is about as sexist as attacking monica lewinsky in the first place. this whole thing just wreaks with bad political behaviobehav. it's going to keep being repeated. >> let's work through a couple of things she said, david. when you talk about kind of the clintons on this. >> sure. >> monica talks about everyone is going to wonder how does she feel about the clintons. . she addresses it. despite what's in the headline,

falsely reported about this piece, this is not about me versus the clintons. their lives have moved on. they occupy important and powerful places on the global stage. i wish them no ill. maybe more importantly, do you think the clintons feel the same way? >> i doubt very much the clintons feel the same way. i think, you know, to get to that larger issue of feminism and why hillary responded the way she did, it had nothing to do with feminism in the world of the clintons. it had to do with survival. at the moment the lewinsky story broke hillary was just thinking about the presidency of her husband and their futures and how to survive. so the whole context of feminism is interesting to discuss apart from the clintons but when it comes to them it was merely a matter of survival and feminism had nothing to do with it. >> sally, you have a different take on that actually. >> yeah. look, hillary to some extent participated in this directly, but certainly was come police is

it or stood by quietly as the clinton machine dragged monica lewinsky through the mud. and this sort of, you know, blaming her and let's not forget, i think she's very good in herpes in saying that she shouldn't also be portrayed as a hapless victim, right? that's offensive to her, too. but at the time, she was dragged through the mud not only by the conservative media but by the clinton machine as well. that struck a lot of people and still strikes a lot of people has pretty hip critical given the strong stance on women's issues and women's rights, especially that hillary has taken. >> i agree with that completely. i just saying from the clinton's perspective -- >> at that time. >> -- to look eight as a feminist issue is right at that time. other people have a right to do that. >> i don't know if we have a full screen of this ready and we've been talking about it this morning of monica's take on the conversation with -- on monica's take on what hillary clinton has said recently or reported that

clinton said to a confidante when she said, hillary clinton wanted it on the record that she was lashing out at her husband's mistress. she may have faulted her husband for being inappropriate but i find her impulse to blame the woman, not only me, but herself, troubling. >> well, as i said earlier, that's the clinton's response to anything that attacks them and makes them vulnerable when they're in the presidency. so i think that monica has a right to be troubled by that, as does the country. but that's the way the clintons the operate. >> kind of summing it up, sally, she takes on feminism in part, monica, does in this piece. he says it's a question that has troubled me to this day. i sorely wish for an understanding from the feminist camp. good old-fashioned girl on girl support was much needed and none came. i understand, bill clinton has been a president friendly to women's causes. looking forward, taking all of this in context, looking forward, what do you think the

impact of this essay could be? >> it should be zip, zilch, and zero. this issue is re -- was already litigated. when hillary ran for president in 2008 she was wildly popular. almost won the democratic nomination. people already knew this. they they still know it now. she has the widest margin of any possible nonincumbent runner in presidential election in history. the possibility that she might run for president. >> and it was a story that captivated the country for better or worse, it involved the president. >> if she said tomorrow i'm not run for president we would stop talking about it. this goes to a larger issue that encapsulated monica and hillary, blaming the woman for the actions of this man as though they are just objects in their orbit. she's her own person. she's her own presidential contender. >> impact of this essay? >> well, i think that the clintons have been essentially immunized from stories about

bill clinton's sex life. but i think the possible potential impact is that hillary's in some sense from the past already. and these stories remind people about the past. so that makes her a little bit vulnerable. but in terms of the lewinsky story itself, i think there's nothing there that can actually harm the clintons. >> and that a woman should not need to answer for her husband's indiscretions and as well pointed out yesterday, a man should not have to answer for his wife's indiscretions as well. equal opportunity. >> and no voter wants to live this 1990s. it wasn't a good decade for any of us. >> for fashion or anything, no, i would say. >> it's good for the economy. >> there you go. high point. >> there was that. >> sally, david, thank you. >> thank you. >> let us know what you think about monica lewinsky speaking out. look at herpes and tell us what you think. tweet us with a #newday. coming up on the show, hillary clinton also weighing in on the kidnapped nigerian girls and their captors as first lady

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welcome back to "new day." assault by the militant group boko haram has killed 300 people in nigeria. this happened in a village they use as a base. several countries including the u.s. are sending resources to

assist. something nigeria's president calls a turning point in the fight baines boko haram. new developments in ukraine. russian state media reporting ukraine deploying 15,000 troops near the russian border after separatists in a major hot spot decided to move forward with a vote to potentially succeed. russian president vladimir putin called for a delay in that vote. the u.s. and nato says there are no signs that russia's troops have pulled back despite putin's claims otherwise. embattled secretary for veterans affairs says he will not resign over a cnn report that showed dozens of veterans died wait for care including more than 40 in phoenix. two top veterans groups have called for eric shen sec i cinsp down. they will meet today to talk about that investigation. a terrifying scene in houston. people screaming and running for their lives as a car plowed through a crowd. witnesses say the father of the

alleged gunman was behind the wheel. they say taunts from family members of one of the victims set him off. the driver was charged with aggravated assault. witnesses say the alleged gunman got away in the chaos. >> all captured on film, too. let's get to "inside politics" on "new day" with jake tapper today. jake, thanks for being here, my friend. >> at pleasure, chris. good to see you. let's go inside politics with guiliana goldman of bloomberg and washington fost. i want to start with comments from president obama about this whole nigeria episode. these poor girls kidnapped by the islamic terrorist group boko haram. listen to what president obama had to say last night. >> i had this remarkable title right now, president of the united states. and yet, every day when i wake

up and i think about young girls in nigeria or children caught up in the conflict in syria, when there are times in which i want to reach out and save those kids. >> very interesting in addition, the first lady sending out this tweet related to the ney year january kidnappings the p first lady saying our prayers are with the missing nigerian girls and their families. it's time to #bringbackourgirls signifying she wrote the tweet herself. what's so interesting about this, guys, is that it's as if it's just a couple next door talking about how much they wish they could do something and not the guy with the most powerful military in the world under his command and his wife. why the sense of futility?

>> in many ways they're projecting the limits, his own limits on u.s. power right now. but what the administration says is that for weeks they've been offering support to the nigerian government. it's only this week that they realize that this really is a problem and, look, that there are teams from the state department, pentagon, fbi that will be on the ground within days and the challenge now is really going to be about tracking. >> i think the challenge that this president has and is some ways created for himself is this perception of weakness. you said the obama was idea of hitting singles, hitting doubles, every once in a while you hit a home run. you imagine this is only going to underscore a lot of criticism that people have had of him which is that there is this sort of shrinking of the american footprint and the shrinking of this idea that america is this indispensable nation. >> and there are those as you know in the human rights community as wells in the u.s.

that say the limbs that you're setting, you are setting. >> right. >> we could be doing more to help the children in syria. >> all the more profound he was make that statement last night at a fund-raiser around the holocaust. but even the first lady's tweet, bring back our girl, that's been tweeted out over a million times over the last few weeks. they try and bring -- >> a lit late. >> late to the ground swell of twitter activity and twitter activism. here she is a little late. >> interesting story in the "daily beast" this morning by josh rogan talking about how hillary clinton refused to brand in islamic terrorist group boko haram as terrorists. why? why the reluctance? >> look, the administration is quick to point out that they labeled it a terrorist organization in november of 2013 under secretary of state john kerry but it's not a black and white issue. i mean, some of the concerns, as josh spointsz out had to do with whether or not they wanted to

elevate boko haram to that status. they didn't necessarily think it posed the kinds of threats broad that would hurt u.s. interests. >> there's concern about the government of nigeria which is not exactly winning any good government awards, use this d designation to crack down on people who were not boko haram. >> raiding them and killed civilians in 2009 after boko haram had really unleashed a spade of violence. i think this goes back to the whole idea of hard choices which of course is the book that hillary clinton is coming out with next week. it isn't black and white. it is complicated by all of these factors that, you know, it's not easy to just make a speech about. >> members of congress pointing out here's a letter from a couple of them in 2012, the day had been urging secretary clinton to do this.

>> she's going to have to confront this, her record as secretary of state and how it plays into current events and daily news cycle. >> speaking of her record as secretary of state, house republicans have set up a select committee on benghazi. a lot of criticism because the national republican congressional committee put out an e-mail fund-raising off of benghazi, the deaths of four americans in the tranl difficult there as well as ensuing scandals and controversies. i asked the congressman from south carolina who is heading up the select committee what he thought about the fund raidsing. take a listen. >> jake, i cannot and will not raise money -- >> but the nrcc is, sir. >> i also advise my colleagues to follow suit and i think i did so in a pretty unambiguous way. >> my interpretation is that he was calling for the nrcc to stop the fund-raising. this is a risky area for republicans, to raise money off of this tragedy. >> yeah. raising money off the tragedy,

also making it look like it's a partisan witch hunt. the administration sees those comments that you had congressman say and, you know, it exposes the tensions in the republican party right now and if the republicans are trying to rally the base around benghazi then what the white house and democrats are saying is, okay, you're obsessed with these kinds of conspiracies and that's coming at the expense of working on other economic t matter, pay equity, gender equality, minimum wage. >> they've got to figure out democrats whether or not they're going to participate in these hearing 'that's a debate that's going on in congress. i do think democrats have to be careful not to seem too flip about this. you had that former aide saying, oh, dude, this happened two years ago. so they've got to be careful about that. i think the danger for republicans as you said is the idea of have they over politicized this to where it's just sort of white noise to most people who aren't, you know, exercised by this.

>> i agree. obviously there are still questions about benghazi. one other obama administration controversy, the irs scandal, the house voted last night 231-187 to approve a contempt citation for one of the key figures in this controversy, lois lerner, former irs executive. and there's a store ray from roll call circulated among republicans from a few days ago talking about the house's little used about to actually arrest individuals. >> yeah. they have this room, right, on the hill that, i mean, i don't know that they put eric holder in that room either. but again, this is just, you know, the distractions rallying the base around democrats labeled this the week of conspiracy week for republicans and we'll see what kind of traction. >> some overshadow that whole lewinsky thing and benghazi and lerner. nothing is going to happen. let these show votes and show actions and show hearings.

>> you don't think they're going to haul her away? >> i don't think so. i would get what they want. >> what would frank do, throw her in jail. >> maybe so. >> look in the camera and tell us. >> thank you so much. before we go, chris and the gang back in new york, i want to play a little bit from our friend conan o'brien that you might enjoy. >> in a new interview hillary clinton said her guilty pleasure is eating chocolate. yeah. meanwhile, bill clinton said his guilty pleasure is being bill clinton. >> back to you in new york, folks. >> just leave it there. just let it marinate. >> i'm not saying anything. that's his joke. >> yeah. >> just laughing because that's what i'm supposed to do. >> exactly. cue the laugh track. coming up next on "new day," she endured a decade of abecause bus, now michelle knight describe in chilling detail the moment she was rescued. her powerful interview with anderson cooper, ahead. listen to this. is it a miracle cure?

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this sounds too good to be true, probably is all of that. what are you comfortable saying about this now? >> i think it really boils down to like we didn't invent this. the proof is in the 2000 years of use in chinese or asian medicine. >> reporter: deer antler velvet is sold in the united states as liquid drops, cap lets, or sprays. the cost ranges from $30 a bottle to a couple hundred dollars depending on the strength. companies don't have to prove there's any benefit so we decided to look into it. combing through dozens of studies looking at the effects of deer antler velvet on humans. despite the enthusiasm of people like the doctor, none of these studies showed a convincing benefit from talking the products. >> heart rate is coming up. everything is looking great. >> reporter: only one on strength training showed even a possible positive effect. craig was that study's author. >> i had some really positive findings, but it's so small it

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>> reporter: in fact, dr. kwok was so inpressed he invested in a company they started to sell the product themselves. >> this will jump it to the whole next level quickly. >> reporter: even they acknowledge the science is not yet there and this is by no means a magic potion. >> so it's not take this and you're just going to be an amazing athlete. it's, eating a noninflammatory diet, putting the right food in your diet, taking deer antler. >> one thing i should point out, cutting the deer antler doesn't actually hurt the deer. they grow grow back so quickly. an inch a day. they take that deer antler, the velvet on the deer antler, and kree out all of these different products. >> one observation, you look amazing. obviously whatever it's doing for you is, you know, it's working off. >> you've got a band-aid. >> because you're so cut? >> because i'm cut. >> i love it. >> you didn't take it, to be clear. >> i did not take it. you know, it was interesting i was really fascinating with all of these varying doctors'

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. welcome back to "new day." one year ago this week, michelle knight was free friday the clutches of ariel castro. she was held in a cleveland house of horrors. he took michelle first in august 2002. she's written about it and her survival in a new book. in an interview with cnn's anderson cooper. she describes the moment she realized the nightmare was finally over. >> sometimes i felt hopeless because there was nobody out there for me. no one. >> reporter: for 11 long years michelle knight was held captive inside 2207 see more avenue where she was brutally raped and tortured. for them it seemed there was no end in sight, that is, until may 6, 2013. >> did it seem like any other day? >> for me it was the most

awesome day ever, but it was also terrifying at the same time, because me and gina, we actually thought somebody was breaking in. >> you heard noises down stairs? >> uh-huh. >> what happened? >> there was crash, pounding on doors. then we didn't hear no sound. >> reporter: did you know amanda had run out of the house? >> no. we didn't have no clue, whatsoever that she had took en off. >> reporter: did you know that he was gone? >> well, yeah, we knew he was gone somewhere, but we thought it was a trick, you know, like he was in the back yard waiting for somebody to be stupid. >> reporter: this time it wasn't a trick. amanda berry was able to break through the front door with her 6-year-old daughter jocelyn. >> help me.

i'm amanda berry. >> police, fire or ambulance? >> i need police. >> what's been going on there? >> i've been kidnapped. i've been missing for ten years. i'm here. i'm free now. >> reporter: the police arrived, but inside their boarded up bedroom michelle and gina were hiding from what they thought were burglars. >> i hear a noise, but anybody can say "police." i noticed some form of a big person. i was like, okay, maybe this might be. and i see a badge, i see numbers. and then i hear the police radio. i just said -- i ran right into her arms. i literally choked her. >> reporter: into the police woman's arms? >> yes. >> reporter: do you remember saying anything? >> i said please don't let me go, please don't put me down. >> reporter: you were actually in her arms? >> yes. i actually had my legs wrapped around her and my arms like this. she was like, that girl

literally choked me. >> reporter: did it seem real to you? >> at the time, no, it didn't. it seemed unreal. >> reporter: what's the past year been like? >> amazing. overwhelming, but amazing as hell. >> reporter: what's it like to have friends, to have a life, to be able to be the person you want to be? >> it's amazing. it's something i never thought i would have. >> unbelievable, the fact she survived it. she didn't believe that they could actually be free. she thought it was a trick at first. the fact they survived all those years, an amazing story she should be able to tell and tell and tell and i want to listen to it again and again. >> she looked at him in open court and said her brave words, tried to take the power from him and let him know that, that was

a big moment. coming up on "new day," a sickening reminder of the danger those hundreds of kidnapped girls face. boka haram brutally attacking villagers, killing 300 people. nigeria responding with america's help. is it already too late? we hope not. a mother's day moment times a million. the speech you just cannot get enough of. kevin durant's mother joining us live talking about her son, the nba's mvp and what it took to get there. i've helped many people in the last 23 years. but i needed help in quitting smoking. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com chantix reduced the urge for me to smoke. it actually caught me by surprise. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of mental health problems, which could

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i felt like a piece of trash. i felt dirty and felt used. >> two big hits today for hillary. new details overnight about what monica lewinsky has to say. hard truths for hillary? house republicans vote today to start an investigation into benghazi. will hillary be called before the committee? nightmare turns to tragedy. more than 300 people murdered in nigeria as the terror group holding those kidnapped girls attacks again. u.s. teams are on the way to

help find those girls, but is it too late? the must-watch speech that's got everybody talking. we dare you not to tear up. now the woman kevin durant spoke so beautifully and emotionally about, his mom, joins us live. your "new day" continues right now. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. it's thursday, may 8, 8:00 in the east. monica lewinsky and hillary clinton both confronting the past with their futures on the line. lewinsky giving new insight into her affair with president bill clinton and also her take on hillary's reaction to her husband's transgression. the former secretary of state is facing a defining moment, the prospect of a new investigation and a possible subpoena over the deadly attack on the u.s. mission in benghazi. let's get to national correspondent suzanne malveaux in washington.

let's talk about monica lewinsky. why is she speaking out now? >> reporter: it's really interesting. it was 16 years ago i covered monica lewinsky. we used to see her often outside the watergate apartments. she was always gracious and kind. clearly this was a difficult and anguishing time for her. she says she's speaking out now because at 40 years old, she wants to move on with her life, give her life some purpose, as well as her past, to show those who experienced public humiliation like she did that it can survive. in her tell-all "vanity fair" essay, monica lewinsky says she's opening up about her scandalous past in an effort to move forward. i would give anything to go back and rewind the tape, she writes about her affair with president clinton. she provides insight into the nature of their relationship beyond the salacious details splashed across the headlines. it was an authentic connection with emotional into massey,

frequent visits, plans made, phone calls and gifts exchanged. now 40, the world's most famous white house intern examines the situation with new perspective. i look back now, shake my head in disbelief and i wonder what was i, what were we thinking? lewinsky has remained mostly reclusive, an effort to protect herself from the shame she felt when the affair went public. >> i did not having sexual relations with that woman, ms. lewinsky. >> reporter: following president clinton's initial vehement denial and subsequent admission. >> indeed i did have a relationship with ms. lou wen ski that was not appropriate. in fact, it was wrong. >> i felt like a piece of trash. i felt dirty and i felt used. >> reporter: lewinsky say it is scandal changed the entire trajectory of her life, making

her virtually unemployable. she remains stuck in time, never getting married or having children. with every man i date -- yes, i date -- i go through some degree of 1998 whiplash. lewinsky says she considered the consequences of telling her story on the clinton universe and felt compelled to speak out now before hillary clinton's potential 2016 presidential bid, something which means more to her than just the possibility of having a female president. when i hear of hillary's perspective can't das see, i can't help but fear the next wave of paparazzi, the next wave of where is she now stories. should i put my life on hold for another eight to ten years. she also responds to hillary clinton calling her a narcissistic looney tunes saying if that is the worst she's called, she's lucky. anticipating when is the next time that she can be thrown into

the spotlight if and when hillary clinton decides to run. the 2016 election and all the books that will follow. chris? >> not a big fan of the scandal though i had to cover it back in the day. i must say it was an interesting read for me and for reasons that having nothing to do with her affair for bill clinton, so important insights from monica lewinsky. we also have news of a very different moment from hillary clinton's past that's also in the spotlight. a big vote is expected today on a republican proposal to create a special committee investigating benghazi. you remember four americans were killed including u.s. ambassador chris stevens. this has been the subject of bitter partisan battles ever since it happened. and much of the focus on what former secretary of state hillary clinton knew or didn't know, did or did not do in the situation. now she is weighing in. cnn's brianna keilar is in washington. >> reporter: hillary clinton

seems to agree with the assessment by many democrats, this is motivated by politics. this is what she said yesterday evening at a clinton foundation event. >> despite all of the hearings, all of the information that's been provided, some choose not to be satisfied and choose to continue to move forward. that's their choice, and i do not believe there is any reason for it to continue in this way. >> adding to democratic claims that this hearing is motivated by politics, senate republicans are actually trying to fundraise off of it. really, chris, you can't escape the presidential politics when it comes to this. hillary clinton as the current front-runner when it comes to the democratic field for 2016, really her time at the state department is seen as positive. polls very much show that. republicans are eager to try to take that positive and make it a negative. they've been arguing that while she traveled a lot as secretary of state, she didn't really

accomplish a whole lot. you're seeing her allies both behind the scenes and out in public trying to back her up on that. we'll hear from her in her words come next month when her book, which is about her time at the state department, comes out on june 10th. >> that will be an important part of this on going chapter. brianna, thank you very much. to the crisis in ukraine. a major about-face by russian president vladimir putin. he says russian troops are pulling back from ukraine's border. russian state media says 15,000 ukrainian troops are moving in, all this happening as separatists in eastern ukraine push forward on a vote to declare their independence. so, of course, the question throughout is, is putin's change of heart actually genuine. senior international correspondent matthew chance has the latest for us from moscow. matthew? >> reporter: thanks very much. it's difficult to know if it's

genuine. he is making the rebels to postpone their planned referendum for this weekend and instead making way for dialogue. he also said he supported the presidential election in ukraine scheduled for may 25th. his spokesman said it would be absurd to carry out an election like that given the security situation there, also saying tens of thousands of troops causing so much concern on russia's border with ukraine have been moved back from the border, back to their permanent bases and training areas. that's been contradicted by western officials, particularly nato, who says there's been no movement in the past few minutes. the russian defense ministry made counteraccusations saying ukraine has, quote, stationed something in the region of 15,000 troops right next to the russian border, an ominous sign that the tensions in that part of the world are still very much, very sensitive indeed. back to you, chris. >> matthew, it seems to be not

so much about what's true, but what countries will do about it. >> also this morning, the president of nigeria putting a terrorist who put 300 school girls on notice, saying this is the beginning of the end for boka haram. the current reality on the ground very different. the terror group just massacred more than 300 people in a village. nigerian troops were using it as a base. nigeria is accepting international help as more people join the rallying cry to bring back the girls, including the first lady who posted this photo of support, the big hash tag going around the internet. let's start with vladimir duthiers live in nigeria. >> reporter: chris, the president speaking here at the start of the world economic forum essentially saying the abduction of these 200 girls taken in the middle of the night from their dormitory while they slept by members of boka haram. he is saying this will be the

end of tir record in nigeria. but 300 people killed in a market on monday, boka haram storming the market dressed in army fatigues with rocket propelled grenade launchers. people rushing into their shops to prevent themselves by being mowed down by automatic weapon fire. boka haram burning these people alive in their shops. a lot of people wondering what does this exactly mean. there were eight girls that were again abducted just this week from bore know state. people wondering how the president is going to be able to end the terror threat. broke co-haram seems to be able to attack with impunity across nigeria. 1500 people killed the first three months of this year in boka haram-related activity, kate. >> this has been going on since 2009. why many people think it's time to get help from the outside. as we mentioned, the u.s. is now

sending help to nigeria including a team of military experts. more details from barbara starr at the pentagon. what is the pentagon saying of how they believe these military experts being sent in are going to be able to help. >> reporter: a senior u.s. military official told me a short time ago they are talking about sending intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assistance to the nigerians. what does that mean? it could mean satellite imagery, could mean drones flying overhead, the kind of high-tech help that could help the nigerians do what they need to do which is to track down boka haram. very preliminary. no decisions have been made. but look for this u.s. military team that is being assembled to provide that kind of advice, to take a look at what could be done to help the nigerians get the job done. right now no decisions have been made, but don't look for this to be a u.s. military operation. no u.s. commandos on the ground,

no u.s. troops kicking down doors. this will be something the nigerians have to do themselves te u.s. strongly believes. >> barbara, thank you very much. more headlines at this hour, u.s. embassy in yemen's capital is closed to the public, state department confirming there's credible information about a potential threat. the same embassy and others were shut down last year for the same reason. no evacuations announced so far. it has been two months since malaysia airlines flight 370 disappeared without a trace. there is no active search for the missing plane this morning. instead they're holding strategy sessions in australia to re-evaluate the mission. meanwhile new ideas are being debated that would require black box pingers to last longer. the u.n. would like realtime tracking of planes over open seas. embattled secretary for veterans affairs say he will not step down.

aaron shinseki has been under fire since the allegations of dozens of veterans dieing while waiting for care. the committee will meet today to consider subpoenas in the matter. katie couric addressing rumors she might be returning to the "today" show. last night she spoke to bill we're about whether those early mornings are back in her future. >> the dirty little secret is i never got up that early. i got up like 5:30. they would be like, is she coming in today. >> would you ever go back? >> i don't think so, no, no. >> rumors have been swirl that couric could return when one of the anchors goes on maternity leave. >> 5:30 would be a sleep-in. >> lunchtime. >> it is lunchtime. >> if brianna goes on maternity leave, she's not going to be sleeping in. >> very good point. >> you're also trained to be

going without a lot of sleep. there you go. >> any ladies who have done morning tv will say this is all in training for the baby. >> couric has been there as well. also a testament to how brilliant she was at the job. she probably didn't need as much time in there as the rest of us. she was really good. we'll see what she does. we'll follow her career with interest. coming up on "new day," here is a question for you. if a major politician got caught in an affair, would you blame him? probably not. really intriguing questions in monica lewinsky's essay. you saw nba star kevin durant tribute to his mother while accepting the mvp award. what is it like to hear that kind of praise coming from your child when the entire country is watching? we'll ask the only woman who will know. kevin durant's mom will join us on "new day."

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welcome back to "new day." monica lewinsky says she was, quote, the most human i'm ated person in the world. she's back with brand new essay released overnight in "vanity fair." what's the goal? to take back her story and make intriguing points about who we are today. for more let's bring in cnn senior analyst jeff toobin. he wrote "a vast conspiracy," and "los angeles times" columnist robin evkarion. other than the cover photo that they allowed her to do in repose, i think it is a series of good choices and smart insights. who cares what i think.

let me start with you, robin. what do you think? >> i think monica lewinsky is tired of being kind of a footnote in the popular culture. i think this terrible scandal she was involved with at a terribly tender age, 21, has scarred her. i think she's looking for a way to find redemption in her own mind. i think the american public has long since moved on from it. clearly monica lewinsky is still struggling with her place in the universe. so she's trying to reassert herself now as a 40-year-old woman and she wants to do some good in the world, and this is her announcement that this is what she's going to do. >> jeffrey toobin, what about fairness? you say the scandal that almost took down a presidency. it certainly took her down, with help from people on both sides of the political aisle, right? >> absolutely. i found the piece very sad. she did something that was wrong. she has paid it seems to me a disproportionate price. most people who make mistakes in

their 20s, it becomes sort of a roofl funny memory soon thereafter. she's not been able to move on. one of the things i learned in writing my book is monica lewinsky wanted one thing above all in life, which was to get married and have a family. she has not been able to do that. i just thought it was a sad story. >> there's a lot of intelligence also in this piece, robin, about how we treat things as a society, specifically women. i submit this to you. we find out today that a massive power fig fig your, a politician, a man, is having an affair with a very young intern and i sit on my show, "new day," and i say who is this woman, this whore who trapped this powerful man? i want to know how she almost messed him up? how long do i keep my job? that's exactly what happened to monica. >> it's interesting. i think you have to remember -- the internet is out there, the conversation also take place on that level even today.

of course, you would not sit there and say things like that, but don't forget, monica presents herself in this essay as the only person who paid a price for this scandal that occurred 16 years ago. the fact of the matter is, bill clinton was impeached over it. he beat the impeachment, he wasn't kicked out of office. he certainly paid a price. certainly the larger point when you have to look back on the scandal is to understand that monica lewinsky became a pawn in a house of cards-style power play between the republicans and an independent prosecutor and the president they were trying to push out of office. this is serious stuff. she became kind of road kill in this political fight, and i can understand why she's still stinging from it today. >> jeffrey, the idea she says all these faux feminists at the time took clinton's side and didn't take my side. what about that?

>> well, perhaps there is something to that, but it's also true that bill clinton had other things he was famous for. he had been elected president of the united states. he had a record, he had a record of accomplishment. some people liked him a great deal for political reasons. monica lewinsky was known for one thing. she was a young woman who got involved in this relationship. so it wasn't just that bill clinton was a bad guy and she was -- that they were both bad, it was that they had a very different -- they brought different things to the scandal. bill clinton had a lot more to fall back on. unfortunately she didn't. >> i would argue that she shouldn't have been known at all. if it happened today, we would probably do everything we could to keep the woman involved quiet. >> really? you think that, chris? >> i think rules have changed today. i think now you do something terrible or do something seen as immoral and you wind up becoming famous for it. we sy see it all around us in

our pop culture. >> one of the things -- this was so long ago. this story broke on the drudge report which was on the worldwide web which was like a revelation to a lot of people. wow, the web, the internet. in the age of twitter, can you imagine the abuse people take. >> we've also evolved socially. i don't think she would have been seen arizona much of a bad guy now as she was then. more important, robin, she talks about hillary clinton. she does not disparage her or come after her. this is not sour grapes, this piece. it is not a tell-all about her affair with the president. but she raises a provocative question for those measuring hillary as a potential president. she says hillary clinton should not have taken blame for the affair essentially. if she wants to dismiss me as a looney tune, that's fine. what do you make of that point, that hillary clinton is getting a lot of support for president because she is supposed to represent the best of feminism. how does that square with that?

>> yes. look, there's two threads going on here. hillary clinton is a feminist, yes, for sure. she's dedicated her life to advancing the well-being of women and girls. she also is a spurned wife who in a private conversation with her dear friend dee dee blair said that she thought monica lewinsky was a narcissistic looney tune which is hardly the worst thing a spurned wife could say about her husband's mistress. i think it's also really important to remember here monica lewinsky was 21 years old, she was not a high school senior. monica lewinsky was an adult. she was making adult decisions. they were disastrous and, yes, she has paid a price. but i don't think she was deserted by feminists. she engaged in a conventional relationship that was really ill-advised and she got burned. >> do we believe she deserves to be left alone and get a new chapter in life, jeffrey toobin? >> absolutely. i think that would be a very

good thing for her, for the world. i think in terms of hillary clinton's political future, this story has zero political impact at this point. people have made up their minds or they're too young, never even heard about this situation, don't care. i just think this is a historical curiosity and it's very interesting, but in terms of 2016, zero impact. >> all right, thank you to both of you. robin ab carrion, jeffrey toobin. he is the nba's newest mvp. everyone is talking about his heartfelt tribute to his most valuable mom. that special woman will be joining us this morning. what was that moment that had us all choked up, what was it like for her?

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two minutes. take a listen. >> the odds were stacked against us. single parent with two boys by the time you were 21 years old. we weren't supposed to be here. we moved from apartment to apartment by ourselves, one of the best memories we had is when we moved into our first apartment, no bed, no furniture and we all sat in the living room and hugged each other because we thought we made it. and when something good happens to you, i don't know about you guys, but i tend to look back to what brought me here. when you wake me up in the middle of the night in the summertime making me run up the hill, making me do push-ups

screaming at me from the sidelines of my games at 8 or 9 years old, we wasn't supposed to be here. you made us believe. you kept us off the street, put clothes on our backs, food on the table. when you didn't eat, you made sure we ate. you went to sleep hungry. you sacrificed for us. you're the real mvp. [ applause ] >> we are so honored to have the real mvp, wanda pratt, kevin durant's mother joining us live this morning from oklahoma city. ms. wanda, talk about a mother's day present. >> what a wonderful mother's day present. every time i hear that, i just start to cry. i've literally been crying for 48 hours. >> you know, sometimes our sons, our fellows are men of few

words. have you ever seen your son speak this way? is this out of character for him? >> yes, he's very quiet, he's very reserved and observant. he spoke so wonderfully the other day, and i really didn't know that he would say those things about me. i knew he would mention me and my family, but i didn't know he would do it so immensely. i was a little shocked and surprised, pleasantly, of course. >> pleasantly, of course. we all love watching your reaction. he spoke to eloquently and what i think many of us appreciate is that he thanked each and every member of his team, coaches, players, trainers by name. i want to know what you did to raise your boy in such a fashion to show such gratitude. >> because i always told him that whatever successes they had in life, it didn't have to be

them, it just happened to be them. they always have to remember that. i really believe that remembering that, it all can lead you in a place of humility, knowing you are blessed to be in the situation that you are. so i really believe that's where it's come from. >> is that what drove you? you're 21, two young boys, that first apartment a big moment for you as he was mentioning? what drove you to get through the hard times? >> it was my two sons. i really didn't focus on myself. i really didn't. it was their lives that i was really pushing for. i knew that i had to strengthen them. i knew they had to believe. i knew they could not see the pain that i was going through as a single parent and as a woman. i just had to allow myself to focus on my commitment to them and not let them focus on the things that kind of made me cry in the middle of the night.

they don't know that about me, so sometimes when i cry now, they're looking at me kind of strangely like what's going on with you? >> what's wrong with you? >> exactly. >> i'm so glad the tears now are tears of joy. i was thinking as i was watching you listen to your son speak, how your story is reflective of so many people, parents that make the ultimate sacrifice for their kids. there are tears in the middle of the night, how will i pay the bills, get these kids through school. it must be incredibly rewarding for you now to see that your son is grateful, but that he's also mvp. >> oh, of course. he's worked so hard. he really started working when he started playing basketball because he developed a love pour the game so quickly. he worked. literally he worked. he didn't hang out with friends from age eight or nine to age 16s he was always working on his game of basketball because he loved it so much.

i'm grateful that i'm here to see he's being rewarded for all the hard work he's put in. >> every parent thinks their kid is going to make to it the nba. did you know in your gut that he had it to make it this far? >> honestly i did not know. i did not know until the end of his freshman year of college. people were saying it and i knew he was a good basketball player, but i did not know that he would make to it the nba until then. >> how about that. >> people say that's strange, but i did not know. >> you're being honest. >> i'm really grateful that i didn't know because maybe my handling of him during that time would have been different. i'm glad that i did not know. >> do you handle him a little differently now that he's a big-time mvp star and much, much, much taller than you? >> no, no not at all. i'm learning. it's hard when you're the mother

of young adult males. i'm learning he is a man now. so my parenting is a little different. but he knows that i'm still mamma, and so i'm okay with that, yes. it's slightly different. >> well, this weekend is mother's day. ms. wanda, i like you very much. i think what your son did to us, i have to admit i'm a clippers fan. this will be tough for you and i. almost hope your son brings home the title. wanda pratt, thank you for sharing your story and congratulations for raising some tremendous young men. >> thank you, thank you. you enjoy your weekend. >> happy mother's day. >> happy mother's day. bye-bye. >> chris, kate? >> what a sweet woman. very often in sport you get these amazing human stories that have nothing to do with what happens on the court. this is certainly one of those. coming up on "new day," the

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time for the five things you need to know for your new day. number one, monica lewinsky breaking her silence in a new essay for van they fair. she calls her affair with president clinton an authentic connection. she worries about her privacy

and paparazzi if hillary clinton runs for president. the militant group boka haram has killed at least 300 people three weeks after they abducted almost 300 school girls. the u.s. is helping in the search for those children. ukraine has deployed 15,000 troops near russia's border. this happening after separatists moved forward with a vote to potentially secede. today in washington a house is expected to vote on creating a special committee to investigate the terror attack on the u.s. mission in benghazi, libya. democrats are pushing for a no vote. the highlight of the nfl off season. the three-day nfl draft event kicks off at new york's radio city music hall. at 8:00 p.m. eastern times the houston texans will be on the clock. we always update the five things you need to know. go to cnn.newday.com for the latest. the clippers and thunder are tied at one game apiece in

their play-off series after oklahoma city won last night. the real drama is, of course, happening off the court and continues to do so. nba owners met again wednesday to ramp up efforts to take the team from donald sterling who is considering his legal options. now the woman who recorded his racist comments, v. stiviano is reportedly under investigations herself for allegations of trying to blackmail sterling. let's discuss this with criminal defense attorney daryn kavinoky. great to see you. >> thanks kate. >> let's start with where the nba is, ramping up their efforts to take the team from donald sterling. this could come down in a morality clause in documents he signed when he bought the team back in '81. explain why that applies here. >> first of all t nba has a lot of momentum right now and a lot of cause to feel highly confident in their efforts. they've got the unanimity that's been expressed by the owners.

they certainly have the support of advertisers that have threatened to pull out if donald sterling remains involved in the organization. now it's been reported that there's a particular morality clause that may actually help them in their efforts which could be vital to them because the bylaws and specifically the section 13-d everybody has been talking about as fortifying and justifying the owner's position, really speaks to teams that have financial difficulties and giving the other owners a vehicle to boot somebody out if a team is unable to meet its financial allegations. now injecting this morality element if there are these documents that have been signed would give them additional leverage to force sterling out. >> at the very same time, now we have another ripple to try to figure out. we've got the wife of donald sterling who put out a statement who says she believes she has the legal right, she wants to maintain the team. the fact we're learning that the

ownership of the l.a. clippers actually sits with a family trust. how big of a problem is that? >> well, this is one of those complexities that perhaps the nba didn't fully appreciate when they started this action. as you mentioned, kate, the team is owned by a family trust, in both donald sterling and shelly sterling are members. she's been publicly acting like an owner, issuing statements that an owner would issue. everybody is highly skeptical about shelly sterling. on the day she issued these public statements that were blasting donald sterling and his racism, she went out to dinner and was caught on camera saying he's no racist. there's a long history of shelly engaged in all sorts of behaviors that would suggest that she's really very well aligned with her husband. she's engaged in racist behavior in the past. this is stuff related to their

alleged slum owner status. so people are looking at shelly with a very jaundiced eye. >> may at least indicate this is going to be a long protracted fight by the family and the nba. let's talk about the other woman involved in this. v. stiviano. to this point we haven't heard, other than what she recorded, we've only been seeing her walk around the neighborhood with that visor on that's so memorable. now there are reports that the l.a. district attorney is investigating allegations that she had been trying to blackmail donald sterling over additional audiotapes that could be out there. how serious is this? >> this is really serious, although it may not operate to help donald sterling since people are often judged by the company they keep. but he's been quoted as saying, i should have paid her off which suggests he actually had the opportunity to pay her off. now she's the target of this

extortion investigation. extortion is where somebody gives property voluntarily as a result of some sort of threat. this could be big, big trouble for her. it's a felony and the idea that she was not the one to release the tapes. she previously said it was a family member that did it really doesn't pass the grin test. she had the motive, the means, the access. she was the only one with any incentive to release those tapes because the sterlings has just filed that lawsuit against her. i don't know that anybody is buying the notion that this was just something done by a family member. it really does look more likely that she was at the heart of this, and this could be a big, big deal for her, especially because she's got this foster care situation going on where she's in the throes of adopting these two children. of course, when it comes to anything concerning children, adoption and foster care, it's

always the best interest of the kids that control. i don't know that anybody would look at this situation, the media circus and these potential criminal charges as being aligned with the best interests of anyone. >> that just adds an additional element that we don't even need to get into. it's so difficult, especially when you think about two kids involved that are in foster care, that she has been going through the process of trying to adopt. and then you've got all of this circus surrounding it all. it's impossible to get into when we talk about it. dary darren, great to see you, the saga continues. a candid one-on-one with former second lady lynne cheney. she says she's certain of one thing in 2016. what it might be just might surprise you. it starts with little things. tiny changes in the brain.

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she spoke to me about political divides in the country and in her own family and why disagreement can be a healthy thing. >> madison began to worry about too strong a central government. that political party led to an era of partisanship in the 1790s that's the equal of anything we have today. >> we say our good lock today, part sonship, you think it's a terrible thing? >> madison wouldn't have thought so. >> what about you? >> i don't think so eerth. it's what happens when you have free and open debate. i'd like to take some of the edge off it. trust me. i've been through this. >> reporter: most recently as a mother watching her daughter's tough wyoming senate bid erupt into a public family feud over same-sex marriage. candidate liz opposed it. her sister mary is gay and married. >> i love mary very much, i love her family very much. this is just an issue we

disagree. >> mary took to facebook. you're on the wrong side of history. >> it got very tense and even ugly at times. as a parent, how did you deal with that? >> my underlying philosophy is that you should try to keep family matters within the family. i think it was unfortunate that happened. it's hard to have two wonderful daughters who see things differently. >> except you deal with it publicly. >> the disadvantage is it becomes a public dispute. i don't want to do anything to continue that trend. >> are you fine with same-sex marriage? >> i think dick actually had the classic formulation. he said freedom means freedom for everyone. >> i think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. >> i think that's a principle we can all agree on. >> is there a reconciliation? >> we're a happy family. >> these days the cheneys prefer to direct their fire outside the

family as lynne cheney has done since the 1990s. >> on the right, lynne cheney. >> good evening and welcome to "crossfire sunday." >> and continues today n the patriotic tradition they might say of james madison. >> madison was the man who said we're a government of laws and not men. >> obama seems to be showing us we can be a government of man and not laws. how could you evaluate the two of them in the same breath? >> that sounds a lot like former vice president dick cheney who is also outspoken. >> president obama has a steep hill to climb. >> reporter: former president bush, bush 43 decided not to comment on public policy and you and your husband have. >> for me it's speaking out because you think there are things that need to be said. >> what do you think it is about the former president? >> i have no idea, but he seems

to be content and happy and i look forward to seeing him and mrs. bush next week. >> you do keep in touch? >> well, i'm going to be at the bush library talking about james madison. >> reporter: and her book, in which madison is considered the prophet of small government and would likely applaud the tea party. >> you can't say just because someone is really conservative they shouldn't be part of this party. we have to be ideologically inclusive as well as in all other sorts of ways. >> reporter: it's a battle that will no doubt play out among republicans in 2016. >> jeb bush, would you like to see him run? >> i think he'd make a great contribution. he has to sort that out. it is so hard to run for president. you have to be sure in your own heart. >> reporter: would you like to see hillary clinton run? >> i think she is going to run. i think my opinion has absolutely nothing to do with it, that hillary is there. i, in fact, don't even understand what the debate is

about will she or won't she. she's running. >> reporter: tough to beat? >> she was defeated in the 2008 election in the primary, and we didn't see that coming. so i'm not sure i could predict that one for you. >> chris and kate, i asked mrs. cheney if she misses being in the political ar reen nachlt she seems just fine with being outside it. she says she and the vice president are in their western years which means a lot of time back home in wyoming. >> that sounds very, very nice. a fascinating woman and fascinating interview. thanks, gloria. that's it for today on "new day." coming up, monica lewinsky is speaking out after ten years of silence. "newsroom" starts right after the break. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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